Teresa Costa Macedo died at the age of 92

Teresa Costa Macedo, Secretary of State in the governments of Francisco Sá Carneiro and Francisco Pinto Balsemão, and current president of the National Confederation of Family Associations, died on Thursday at the age of 92, a source close to the family told Lusa. According to the same source, Teresa Costa Macedo was admitted to the Santa Maria hospital in Lisbon due to a lung infection.

At 92 years old, he was president of the National Confederation of Family Associations (CNAF), and Thursday, May 15, was International Family Day.

Teresa Costa Macedo was Secretary of State for the Family in the governments of Francisco Sá Carneiro (1980-1981) and Francisco Pinto Balsemão (1981 and 1981-1983).

Graduated in Philosophy from the Universidade Clássica de Lisboa, she was vice-president of the European Women's Union and member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union.

According to her biography on the Wikipedia portal, in September 1980, within the scope of the 1st Synod of the Family, she was “the only member of the world government to be invited to participate in it, following the invitation to collaborate with the Committee for the Family (current Pontifical Council for the Family)”.

“Having been confirmed by His Holiness Benedict XVI and His Holiness Francis, he is the only Portuguese lay member in the Vatican Dicasteries”, it reads.

He was also president of “Mission Europa” , based in Geneva, vice-president of the Council of European Associations, based in Brussels, and vice-president of the World Observatory of Associative Life, based in Geneva, and held several national and international positions linked to the area of ​​the Family.

He received the Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (June 10, 1992) and the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique (March 11, 2000).